Why it works: Nuts and beans work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓
Bean Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Fill a long pudding dish nearly full with small toys, nuts, and candies.
Cover the mixture with white whole beans.
After serving biscuits and cake, pass the bean pudding.
Let each guest take a spoonful, ensuring they dip out a toy.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Nuts + beanstop 14% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together20 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
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